Russia posts air strike videos after accusations of civilian deaths

The drone videos posted on Twitter show the destruction of various military targets, including rocket launchers, armoured vehicles and workshops constructing "jihadmobiles", or suicide bomb trucks.

But human rights groups have accused Russia of killing civilians in the region with its airstrikes.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 37 civilians including 12 children were killed in Russia's airstrikes in Idlib, in the country's north.

Russia denied it had attacked populated areas in its recent raids, and said the militants targeted where part of the Al-Nusra Front.

"The Russian Air Force does not strike populated areas in the Syrian Arab Republic," General Igor Konashenkov told RT.

Al-Nusra is considered a splinter group of al-Qaeda and is one of the more successful terrorist groups fighting the Assad regime.
Despite its ambitions to create a caliphate in Syria, Al-Nusra have openly fought with Islamic State.